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The suspected figure of Zou Wumang downstairs only flashed in his peripheral vision, and he didn't see the other person's appearance clearly at all.Fang Xia thought about it, and felt that he probably thought too much.How can there be such a coincidence?As soon as he arrived at City K, the disciples of the Xuanyong sect whom he wanted to contact ran over hurriedly.

Fang Xia closed the curtains, casually hung the towel for wiping her hair on the floor hanger beside her, turned around and ran to the bed, and took out her underwear from the stack of laundry.

He didn't avoid Fu Jin, he directly pulled the bath towel around his waist and crotch, bent over to put on his underwear, took the jade ring hanging from his back to his chest, and ran to drink Fu Jin to bring it up The chilled mung bean soup was served.

Standing beside Fang Xia, Fu Jin looked down from his collarbone and down to his waist, then hooked Fang Xia's hair that started to drip again with his fingers, went to the hanger by the window to get a towel, and helped him Keep rubbing.

The mung bean soup came in a small bowl, and Fang Xia finished it in two bites.He squinted his eyes and licked the corners of his lips, looked up at Fu Jin, "It's very sweet."

"Really?" Fu Jin rubbed Fang Xia's hair to stop dripping, and looked down at Fang Xia.

Fang Xia raised her head halfway, tapped her lips with her finger, and hooked her finger at Fu Jin.

Fu Jin's eyes darkened, she reached out to support Fang Xia's bare shoulders, and leaned over to kiss those slightly parted lips.

Lips pressed together, lips and tongue intertwined.

After a deep kiss, Fang Xia panted slightly, and reluctantly let go of Fu Jin.

"Is it sweet?" Fang Xia asked.

"Mm, very sweet." Fu Jin brushed Fang Xia's mouth with his thumb, and replied in a low voice.

Fang Xia made an appointment to visit the Wang family in the evening, but there was not enough time, otherwise he really wanted to push Fu Jin down like this.

Fang Xia got up and packed her luggage, and when it was almost time, she took the greeting card and went out with Fu Jin to Wang's house by car.

The octagonal wooden tower is the center of Xushui Town, and there is a higher mountain in the northwest of the octagonal wooden tower.The continuous low mountains on both sides of the peak look like a person with open arms, embracing half of Xushui Town.The Wang family is near the mountain, near the highest peak.

City K is a small city, similar to City Q, but because of the special local culture of ancient buildings, it has attracted many tourists from other places.However, marginal towns like Xushui Town are relatively deserted.There are few taxis, and the bus is never full of people from the starting station to the terminal station.

Fang Xia and Fu Jin, following the last two passengers in the bus, got off at the terminal and walked towards the small building where the Wang family was.

It is a two-story self-built small building with a yard, a roof and a small attic, and each house has the same type of apartment.The houses are arranged vertically and horizontally, very neatly.Each building is marked with a building number, Fang Xia looked for it according to the address Geng Zhongzhi gave him, and soon found Wang's house.

Fang Xia and Fu Jin walked to the gate of the Wang family's courtyard. The native dog in the courtyard just got out from under the orange tree. Before he had time to squeak, he saw Fu Jin and immediately ran into the kennel with his tail between his legs.

"Hey! Help me call the door!" Fang Xia shouted at the dirt dog with its tail sticking out of the kennel.

The earth dog's tail patted the ground, and then retracted its tail into the kennel.

Fang Xia sighed, and could only knock on the door and call for someone.

The gate on the first floor was half open, obviously the owner was at home, Fang Xia took a few shots of the iron gate of the courtyard, and saw a middle-aged man in his 40s running out.

The man has an ordinary appearance, neither tall nor short, and looks gentle.

"Hello, I'm here to see Mr. Wang Shengquan." Seeing the man approaching, Fang Xia took the initiative to explain.

"I am Wang Shengquan, are you Fang Xia?" The man said as he opened the iron gate of the yard to let Fang Xia and Fu Jin in.

Is this person the head of the Wang Family?While Fang Xia handed him the greeting card, she couldn't help but look at him more.

"It's hot outside, hurry up and get inside." Wang Shengquan glanced at the greeting card, and led Fang Xia and Fu Jin inside.

Fang Xia felt that this was probably the most easy-going person he had ever met in the Xuanshu circle, and he was also the head of the family.Not to mention the heirs of the patriarch, even Geng Shudan, who has a good temper, sometimes has a tinge of arrogance.Unlike the Patriarch of the Wang family, he looks like an ordinary person, not someone who is in the mystical circle at all.

Wang Shengquan led people into the living room, pointed to the mahogany sofa by the window, and said, "You're welcome, sit down wherever you want, and I'll get you something to drink."

Wang Shengquan quickly brought something to drink, a pinch of iced fruit juice, and poured two glasses for Fang Xia and Fu Jin respectively.

"My wife squeezed this juice out of fresh fruit this morning. It tastes good. You young people should like it." Wang Shengquan said, his eyes turned to Fu Jin, and after a short pause, he asked, "If you don't like it, I will To make tea?"

Fu Jin saw Fang Xia holding the glass and drinking with relish, looked up at Wang Shengquan, and said lightly, "No need."

Fang Xia chatted with Wang Shengquan for a while, and felt that the Wang family was said to be an aristocratic family, but it was actually similar to an ordinary family.Wang Shengquan has a daughter and is an ordinary family of three.There are several relatives, but regardless of direct lineage or collateral lineage, his patriarch is more like a nominal one.He has a serious job as a Chinese teacher in the town's primary school.

"It's nothing strange." Seeing Fang Xia's surprise, Wang Shengquan smiled and explained to him, "Small families in the Xuanshu circle are basically like this, unlike big families who have regular customers, or have their own like your Geng family. It’s a family company. We only rely on my luck to make money in the Xuanshu circle. It’s better to find a job. The sect is almost the same. The big sect has an industry to support the disciples in the sect, but the people of the small sect basically find ordinary jobs by themselves. Those who support themselves. There are also those who work alone, who do not have ordinary jobs, and are basically famous and have regular customers."

Fang Xia: "..." I suddenly felt that the circle of profound arts was not very advanced.

"By the way, I heard that you came to me because you wanted to see our Wang family's puppet art?" Wang Shengquan asked.

"That's right, can you show it?" Fang Xia put down his cup and looked at Wang Shengquan.

"no problem."

Wang Shengquan got up to get the yellow talisman and writing brush.

He wrote his name on the yellow talisman, murmured a few spells, and then pasted it into a thin strip and placed it on the coffee table.

"Look at it." Wang Shengquan told Fang Xia to pay attention.

Fang Xia nodded and stared at him.He took out a pair of scissors from under the coffee table, then picked up a strand of hair on his forehead, and cut it off with a pair of scissors.The scissors did cut the hair, and Fang Xia could see it clearly, but Wang Shengquan spread his hands to show him, but he didn't see a single piece of hair that should be cut off.

Fang Xia: "Magic?"

Wang Shengquan smiled and motioned Fang Xia to look at the folded yellow talisman on the coffee table.The thin piece of paper folded by the yellow talisman became two pieces, with a flat opening in the middle, as if cut by scissors.

"This is a substitute technique." Fu Jin asked Fang Xia to explain.

"That's right, this is our Wang family's stand-in technique. It can help people avoid some small disasters, but the big ones won't work. For example, cutting the hair will work. If I stick a knife in the stomach, it may make the injury less serious." , but it is definitely impossible to completely block it." Wang Shengquan said.

"But what I want to see is puppetry." Fang Xia looked at him with her chin resting.

"The substitute technique is also a kind of puppet technique." Wang Shengquan explained to Fang Xia.

"I want to see other things, such as making the paper dolls move."

Wang Shengquan showed a look of distress, and finally said helplessly: "I will do what you said, but not every time. People who come to me usually ask for a substitute, a manipulative puppet Technique, because it’s not very useful, I haven’t used it much after I learned it. Don’t laugh at me if you fail..."

This time, Wang Shengquan cut out a paper figurine with a yellow talisman, and then picked up a brush to draw talismans on it.Wang Shengquan's talisman was very jerky, and it seemed that he hadn't used this kind of puppet technique for a long time.If you draw three paper figurines in a row, you will be considered as one successful.

The paper figurine with the talisman drawn on it was placed on the coffee table, and Wang Shengquan folded a few ingots with the yellow talisman. He took out a lighter and lit the ingots while chanting.

After a while, the ingots were burned out, and the paper figurine remained silent.Wang Shengquan frowned while staring at the paper figurine, and continued to read a few more sentences.This time, Fang Xia saw a wisp of green smoke floating from the ground, spun around on the paper figurine, and reluctantly got in.Afterwards, the paper figurine on the coffee table stood up unsteadily.

"Successful!" Wang Shengquan looked happy.

The paper figurine on the coffee table staggered, stopped, landed on one knee, trembled, and suddenly ignited.

Wang Shengquan picked up the empty cup, quickly covered the fireball, and said embarrassingly: "It's not very successful, I can only stick to it for a while, I'm laughing at you."

Fang Xia: "..." The substitute technique just now was somewhat useful, as for the puppet technique, it can only be seen as a pure magic show.

"Brother?" A male voice called out from the living room door.

Fang Xia looked up and found that it was a young man in his early thirties.He is thin, with unnatural paleness on his face, and handsome and gentle features.

"Shao Kun, are you back?" Wang Shengquan looked back, "What did Uncle Li say? Are you in good health?"

"No big problem, don't worry. You entertain the guests first, I'll go upstairs and change my clothes first." The young man smiled politely at Fang Xia and the others, and left the living room door.

"That's my cousin, Wang Shaokun, who came to see a doctor of Chinese medicine." Wang Shengquan said to Fang Xia, "He was born prematurely and was weak. .So he will come to see Uncle Li regularly for his pulse and physical examination."

Fang Xia chatted with Wang Shengquan for a few more words before getting up to leave.

Wang Shengquan stayed with Fang Xia for dinner, but Fang Xia refused.

It was already night outside, and all the lights on the roadside had been turned on.

"By the way, are you planning to leave City K right away? Or are you staying here for a while?" Wang Shengquan asked as he sent the man out of the courtyard gate.

"It depends." Fang Xia replied vaguely.

"If you want to stay and play, then you should pay attention tomorrow." Wang Shengquan reminded, "Tomorrow is the seventh and a half of the lunar calendar, and the ghost gate is open. You should know this. What I want to say is that our Xushui Town There is a habit of burning paper money along the road to worship ancestors, which will probably attract a lot of dead souls. It is best not to run around at night. Cough! Dead souls and the like may not be a big deal to your Geng family, so you just treat me Just worry about it."

"I see, thank you." After Fang Xia thanked Wang Shengquan, he waved his hand again, "Go back, there is no need to send it away."

Wang Shengquan stopped at the door, Fang Xia and Fu Jin walked out along the way they came.

As soon as he walked through this residential area and walked to the road, Fang Xia saw someone burning paper money on the opposite side.Today is the fourteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and it is not yet the official Hungry Ghost Festival. At this time, some people burn paper money early, which shows that what Wang Shengquan said is true. Xushui Town does have the habit of burning paper money on the roadside to worship ancestors during the Hungry Ghost Festival.

Fang Xia only glanced at it, then continued walking towards the bus station.While walking, he asked Fu Jin who was beside him, "Do you think Wang Shengquan is just pretending? He can make a puppet that looks like a real person, and deliberately fooled me with a paper puppet?"

"I can't tell." Fu Jin shook his head.

"Then let's stay here for a while and see if we can find any clues." If Wang Shengquan is pretending, then there is no way that there is nothing wrong in the small town where he has lived all year round.

Min Xiao said that he lent the monkey paw to the puppet master.And the place where the monkey's paw was lost was the place where Ma Guangping died, that is to say, the master of puppetry was probably Ma Guangping's.If you can find this person directly, you don't need to follow the clues of Guizongmen or Xuanyong Sect to go around in circles.

The author has something to say:

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Wang Shengquan: This juice was squeezed by my wife from fresh fruit this morning. It tastes good. You young people should like it.

Author: Mr. Fu must not like it, he is at least a thousand years old!

Fu Jin glanced over faintly.

Author: I am talking nonsense, you are forever 18 years old!